1986 I jumped into the bedding industry when Japanese futons become popular in Germany. I started a small production of these new “mattresses” and grow continuously during the next years. Soon a lot of people asked for more comfort in this simple and firm cotton mats and accordingly I started to add a latex foam sheet in the middle of the futons. First 2 cm, later 6 cm and at the end I found myself making a 10 cm latex foam mattress with some fibres on top. In 1996 I made my first trip to Asia to investigate more in natural latex foam because the European bedding industry at that time don’t care much about the difference between synthetic and natural sources. That trip was my personal vocation! Back in Germany together with the ECO Institute in Cologne I founded the “Quality Association for Environmentally- Agreeable Latex Mattresses .e.V. = (QuL e.V.) . Beginning 2000 I joined a company in Bremen (Dames-Willers GmbH) which was already engaged in latex foam businesses such as import and export of pillows and mattress cores, machinery supply and other activities. During the next 13 years, amongst other, I was responsible for the budgeting, planning, export and erection of 3 latex foam production plants: - 2003 Sri Lanka - 2006 Indonesia - 2009 Guatemala - and more After finishing the first project in Sri Lanka in 2003 (which was still based on steam vulcanization) I invented a „process for vulcanizing and apparatus therefore” (DE10338367) based on high-frequency heating and special designed moulds. This process revolutionized the DUNLOP process dramatically (read more at: BACKGROUND and TECHNOLOGY ) . The factory in Indonesia was the first in the world which was equipped with this new production process. A few years later we equipped a new factory in Guatemala with two separate production lines, one for pillows and another one for mattress cores. Since 2013 I am working as free and independent consultant, entrepreneur and inventor.